This DVD movie was entertaining and interesting but not one of my favorite for this year. Not too bad---good performance. Very predictable but still entertaining.

Play the video game instead.

Some nice visuals, but I did not like this as much as what the director had done before.

Total snooze fest. There was nothing interesting about this film, except the locations. Lots of exterior shots in Toronto.

Terrible film. I've watched clearer plot lines and more believeable twists on Miami Vice. The way the film was going to end was made clear from the moment an old family friend reacquaints himself with our hurting title character. Any time spent watching film and television alerted the viewer to this fact. And just when you think that our hero is finally going to earn the bullet (that anyone who paid to see this film in the theatre would line-up to deliver (to the character)) the female lead shows up, completely out of nowhere to assist. Come on, man, give us more credit than that. Don't waste your time.

Fair – Max Payne (2008) 100 min. Film adaptation of the popular video game starring Mark Wahlberg is completely forgettable. I found the story to drag at times as the camera pans across the city (wished they spent more time panning across the characters and giving them some life). The film never really gets going because Wahlberg plays Max Payne with the emotions of a tree stump. Oh yes, there is one scene that shows the guy, riddled with the much understood blues over his family’s violent death, smiling. That lasted 3 seconds. By the way, the one thing that makes a great picture is when you forget you’re watching a movie. Not with this one – you know acting (bad acting) is going on and the director yelling “cut”. It was fun watching an older Chris O’Donnell, who’s gained weight, still maintain that squeaky “Robin” voice. This film is barely watchable.